Autumn has fully arrived in Gainesville with cooler nights and the ripening of the nut trees.  North Florida has lots of pecans, but we...

The Florida garden has lots of shaded space under Camellia bushes, live oaks, flowering bushes, etc.  The usual solution is to add more...

TOO MUCH IF A GOOD THING. I would have to admit that our stay at TAProots Farm for the months of July and August has one drawback, namely...

The heat and dryness of the long summer persisted through September at our Florida home.  It is a real art to maintain flowering plants,...

Harvest time at TAProots farm included one new project for 2019:  THE GOURD TRELLIS.  This idea dates back several years when I asked my...

As the fall season officially arrives, HARVEST TIME gets going for many TAProots products, including peaches, apples, and pears.  But the...

After our two months at the Keuka Lakehouse, we return to our Florida home in Gainesville with trepidation and concern about how the LATE...

At the Keuka lakehouse, the summer progresses into autumn in the last week of August or first weeks of September.  The late summer...

TAProots is a working farm, requiring several types of equipment to make the farm work easier.  The WORKHORSES of TAProots begin with Big...

An annual tradition at TAProots is  a CLAM AND SHRIMP BOIL at the barn.  The entire Pearson clan converges on the Keuka Lakehouse in late...

From early August until frost, a major attraction at TAProots is our BLACKBERRIES.  We have planted different varieties so there are...

TAProots farm frequently provides a surplus of berries and fruits that is more than we can enjoy for breakfast or desserts.  Our friends...

Another plant shared by our gardens at TAProots and our Florida Home is the BLUEBERRY.  Of course, the plants are very different with...

A special part of our Keuka lakehouse is NONNY’S GARDEN.  It rests above a river stone wall in a sunny spot across the front of the...

The beach for our Keuka Lake house faces west and is at the bottom of a rather steep slope, requiring a stairway to reach the water. ...

One flower shared by both our Florida home and TAProots farm is the day lily, and pictures of our Florida flowers have been in prior...

Much of the harvest at TAProots is in August and September, so an early July fruit is much appreciated.  The Ribes family includes...

The monotonous heat of the Gainesville summer means two things.  First, we relocate to TAProots farm where it is much cooler and there is...

Gainesville, Florida touts itself as the “Butterfly Capital of the US.”  They might be right, and many of the plantings in the Florida...

The summer heat has really set in and the sunniest place of our Florida Home is the front yard, which bakes in the sun.  This is the...